Blade Runner’s Universe Will Expand With New Prime Video Series

The Blade Runner-aissance is nigh, particularly now that we’re getting a brand new live-action sequence from Prime Video. After Denis Villeneuve’s 2017 movie Blade Runner 2049, starring Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling, introduced replicants again onto the massive display, it was solely a matter of time earlier than a TV present got here on the horizon. (Not to say the comics, an animated sequence, and an RPG, all made inside the final 5 years.)

Blade Runner 2099 will likely be govt produced by Ridley Scott, the director of the unique 1982 Blade Runner movie, in partnership together with his manufacturing studio Scott Free Productions and Alcon Productions, which is primarily a financier of movies and likewise helped produce Blade Runner 2049. Silka Luisa is ready to tackle the showrunner position—she’s greatest recognized for govt producing and writing Shining Girls, the psychological whodunnit of shifting actuality starring Elisabeth Moss.

One of my favourite screenwriters, Michael Green (Bioshock, Logan, American Gods, Kings) who wrote the Blade Runner 2049 movie, is at the moment related to this manufacturing in a non-writing govt producer position. Currently the writers introduced embody Luisa and Tom Spezialy (Watchmen, Ash vs Evil Dead). Scott has been buying this round for some time, so it’s good to see it lastly has a house, even when it is going to be accessible (considerably mockingly) solely by way of one of many largest mega-corporations of our time.

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